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How Buhari ordered suspension of Ruga programme

Posted by admin Headlines Thursday, July 4th, 2019

By Emma Ujah, Abuja Bureau Chief ABUJA – President Muhammadu Buhari suspended the controversial “Ruga” programme in anger, saying that its implementation is at variance with the National Livestock Transformation Plan, NLTP, developed by the National Economic Council and approved by the Federal Government. Insider sources explained that the President, on hearing about the Ruga […]

Popular pastor of COZA, Biodun Fatoyinbo, accused of rape

Posted by admin Headlines Sunday, June 30th, 2019

Protesters on Sunday besieged the Lagos church of the Commonwealth of Zion Assembly along Mobolaji Bank Anthony Way, Ikeja. One of the protesters at the church held a megaphone through which he chanted, “Say no to”. His call was received with responses of “rape” from the gathered protesters. READ ALSO: COZA: My husband is not a […]

Trump, first sitting U.S. president to step foot on North Korean soil

Posted by admin American Politics, Headlines Sunday, June 30th, 2019

US President Donald Trump left South Korea on Sunday after a trip to Asia that took in a G20 summit in Japan and a historic meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in the Demilitarized Zone dividing the peninsula. Trump departed on Air Force One just before 1000 GMT (7pm local time) en route […]

Ethnic clashes claim 5 in Taraba

Posted by admin Headlines, State News, Taraba Sunday, June 30th, 2019

Five persons were killed on Tuesday and several houses burnt in a fresh crisis between the Tiv and Jukuns in Rafinkada Village of Wukari local government area of Taraba. Mr. Daniel Adidas, the Caretaker Committee Chairman of the Council confirmed the development in a telephone interview with with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in […]

2019 AFCON: Visa issues prevent Super Eagles’ supporters’ club from travelling to Egypt

Posted by admin Headlines, Soccer, Sports Sunday, June 30th, 2019

The National Chairperson, Nigeria Eagles Supporters Club, Bunmi Ogunfunwa, on Saturday said that the Super Eagles were missing the supporters club at the ongoing African Cup of Nations (AFCON) in Egypt due to visa hitch. Ogunfuwa made the assertion in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos on the sidelines of […]

Igbo youths send draft bill for the federation of the southeast

Posted by admin Headlines, South-East Sunday, June 30th, 2019

THE youth wing of Ohanaeze Ndigbo has submitted a proposal for a draft bill for the federation of South East states of Abia, Anambra , Ebonyi, Imo and Enugu. Igbos in Delta and Rivers could opt to join the federation, the group said. The National President of the group, Arthur Obiora said the draft bill […]

Yoruba leaders make a U-turn – advise Buhari on next NDDC chairman

Posted by admin Delta, Headlines, Niger Delta, State News Sunday, June 30th, 2019

Ondo State elders on Friday looked at the Niger Development Commission (NDDC) Establishment Act 2000, calling on President Muhammadu Buhari to appoint Delta State indigenes as the next Chairman and Managing Director of the Commission. ‘’It is the turn of Delta State to produce the chairman of the board and also the managing director’’ the […]

Photo: “Outrage as a passenger onboard a flight asks Prof. Wole Soyinka to vacate his seat

Posted by admin Headlines, Wole Soyinka Wednesday, June 26th, 2019

The Internet was abuzz, yesterday, after Tonye Cole, billionaire politician, shared his flight experience on how Wole Soyinka, Nobel laureate, was asked to vacate a seat by a passenger onboard a flight. Cole, the co-founder and former group executive director of Sahara Group and Energy, had taken to his Instagram page on Sunday to narrate […]

Egypt first democratic president, Morsi, dies of heart attack in court during sitting

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines, Uncategorized Saturday, June 22nd, 2019

Egypt’s former president Mohammed Morsi, the Muslim Brotherhood leader who rose to office in the country’s first free elections in 2012 and was ousted a year later by the military, collapsed in court during a trial and died Monday, state TV and his family said. The 67-year-old Morsi had just addressed the court, speaking from the […]

Thugs beat up Adams Oshiomhole’s younger brother, Seidu, others, at a hotel in Benin

Posted by admin Edo, Headlines, State News Wednesday, June 19th, 2019

Suspected thugs have beaten up Seidu Oshiomhole, the younger brother of the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress and lawmaker-elect (Etsako West 11) of the Edo State House of Assembly, Tribune Online is reporting. The attack on Oshiomhole and 14 other lawmakers of the Edo State House of Assembly is the latest in the […]